Stoic quotes on death

We do not fear death; we fear the thought of death. For death itself is always the same distance from us; wherefore, if it is to be feared at all, it is to be feared always.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of hardship or death.

Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.

You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere.

Keep before your eyes day by day death and exile, and everything that seems terrible, but most of all death; and then you will never have any abject thought, nor will you yearn for anything beyond measure.

Choose to die well while it is possible, lest shortly it may become necessary for you to die, but it will no longer be possible to die well.

Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this too is one of those things which nature wills.

There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.

Do you, however, always think on death in order that you may never fear it.

Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature…

For the mind will never rise to virtue if it believes that death is an evil; but it will so rise if it holds that death is a matter of indifference.

Believe me, Lucilius; death is so little to be feared that through its good offices nothing is to be feared.